Archive of ‘My Self-Publishing Adventure’ category

My fist glitch. For almost as long as I’ve known Kath, she has talked about the power of visualising your published novels on the shelves in bookshops. I’ve come across the idea of visualising what you want as part of getting it – my eldest brother’s wife, crazy as a bandicoot, used to urge […] Read more…

Pilyara Press – Our Self-Publishing Adventure It’s time to introduce my partners in this venture. First up is Jennifer Scoullar, who’d been thinking for some years about self-publishing. After an initial run at it, which resulted in WASP SEASON, she got her first book contract with Penguin, who published her rural romance, BRUMBY’S […] Read more…

After telling all my writer friends that I’ve bailed out of my self-publishing venture with Jennifer Scoullar and Kathryn Ledson, I am now back in. I’m no longer panicking. I feel calm and composed. I can do this. Doing it will not kill me. I will not die if, by some distant chance lurking just […] Read more…

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Sydney Smith is a writing mentor, teacher and author of short stories, essays, and The Lost Woman, a memoir of survival. Sydney's latest book The Architecture of Narrative about how to plot and structure fiction is out now.